desserts

Microwave Brownies

November 20, 2008 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I don’t use the microwave to actually cook much. I melt butter, heat milk, reheat leftovers, etc. But my girls found this microwave brownie recipe in Mom’s Big Book of Baking: 200 Simple, Foolproof Recipes for Delicious Family Treats to Get You Through Every Birthday Party, Class Picnic, Potluck, Bake Sale, Holiday, and No-School Day. [...]

101 Easy Peasy Cookie Recipes

February 26, 2008 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I received a review copy of 101 Easy Peasy Cookie Recipes at a time when I was a bit overwhelmed with other happenings, so it’s taken me a while to post this. I made their Chocolately Raspberry Streusel Bars, except I used blackberry jam since that’s what I had in the frig. The girls declared [...]

Bread Pudding

February 4, 2008 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This would be best with slightly stale substantial bread I think, but it came out great with some not stale whole grain white bread too. If you like rice pudding, you’ll probably like this. It’s the same basic custard cooked with bread instead of rice. Some folks remove the crusts on the bread for stuff [...]

Sliced Oranges with Cinnamon

January 18, 2008 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I got this idea from one of those fundraiser cookbooks. I love those! This was one on Mexican cooking that my nephew was selling a few years ago for his high school Spanish class. Peel some oranges and slice crosswise (so you end up with circles of oranges). Put them in a bowl. Sprinkle with [...]

Cheap Milkshakes with No Ice Cream

November 7, 2007 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Got some kids hungry for a milk shake but you have no ice cream? Try these milkshakes from Hillbilly Housewife. I halved the recipe so I could make one vanilla and one chocolate. Both were a hit. They don’t taste like milk shakes made with ice cream of course, but they do taste pretty darned [...]

Apple Cake

October 1, 2007 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I followed my niece’s lead in this recipe from my mom and used applesauce rather than oil. I have a batch of home canned applesauce that is a bit cinnamon heavy. I’m thinking I’ll use it all up in baking treats like this since I’m the only that likes it plain! 4 cups chopped apples [...]

Raspberry Tart

September 30, 2007 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Gifts from friends that know you well are the best. A shining example is this fantastic cookbook that one of my oldest friends sent me “just because.” Coincidentally, I’m currently reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, which mentions Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets. I love noting [...]

Gingerbread Houses

December 18, 2006 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

We used pre-fab gingerbread houses this year due to time constraints. It let us concentrate on the decorating more, which was a nice change of pace. However, I’ll not use the icing included in the kits again, as 3 out of 4 houses have self-destructed at this point, several weeks after the initial decorating. But [...]

Heavenly Zucchini Bread

October 16, 2006 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I somehow managed NOT to overplant the zucchini this year so am just now getting around to making zucchini bread. I had a zucchini bread recipe I liked well enough but just felt like experimenting a bit this afternoon. The primary differences is that this has more than double the sugar, so it’s much more [...]

Easy Tapioca Pudding

September 10, 2006 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I looked online yesterday for tapioca pudding recipes because the only ones in my cookbooks involved separating eggs and folding in beaten egg whites later, something beyond the skill of my youngest, who wanted to make the pudding. I didn’t have the box of tapioca anymore, since I tend to store stuff like that in [...]

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